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Business Recycling & Waste and Recycling Infrastructure grants are now open

Date:29-Jan-18Author: Claire Bell

Funding is now available for the NSW Environment Protection Authority (EPA) Waste Less Recycle More grants for business recycling and waste and recycling infrastructure programs as follows:

Bin Trim – Round 3

Open: Wednesday 24 January 2018Closing: Monday 5 March 2018 at 4 pm

The Bin Trim Program offers grants of between $50,000 and $400,000 to fund waste assessors to work with NSW businesses with up to 400 full-time employees. These waste experts undertake assessments, produce tailored action plans, and provide businesses with advice and support to increase their recycling and reduce their waste to landfill. A total of $5 million in funding is available in Round 3. No late applications will be accepted. Eligible applicants: Waste and recycling service providers, consultants, local councils and groups of councils, industry associations/peak industry bodies, not for profit charitable business enterprises, equipment manufacturers, and partnerships between two or more of these organisations.

Circulate (Industrial Ecology) – Round 3

Open: Wednesday 24 January 2018Closing: Ongoing

The Circulate Program offers grants of between $20,000 and $150,000 to fund innovative, commercially-oriented industrial ecology projects that focus on the commercial and industrial (C&I) and construction and demolition (C&D) sectors in NSW. Circulate supports projects that will recover materials that would otherwise be sent to landfill, to be used as feedstock for other commercial, industrial or construction processes. A total of $2.5 million in funding is available in Round 3.Eligible applicants: Business, not for profit organisations, councils, industry bodies, product stewardship groups.

Civil Construction Market Program - Round 1

Open: Wednesday 24 January 2018Closing: Ongoing

The Civil Construction Market Program offers grants of up to $150,000 to eligible organisations to promote the use of waste from one civil construction project as a useful input into another. This program aims to reduce the amount of C&D waste being sent to landfill, reduce the amount of C&D material being stockpiled and to promote innovative resource recovery activities in the NSW Civil Construction sector. A total of $2.5 million in funding is available in Round 1.Eligible applicants: Organisations holding an ABN, this includes local government, consultants, contractors and waste service providers. Your application must be submitted by an employee of the lead organisation applying for the grant.